Physical environment may modify the association between depressive symptoms and change in waist circumference: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

Rosemay A Remigio-BakerDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CAPsychosomatics 55:144-54. 2014

..The availability of healthy foods has rarely been directly measured in a systematic fashion. This study examines the associations among the availability of healthy foods and racial and income neighborhood composition...

..These results suggest that population-wide measures designed to reduce energy stores, without affecting nutritional sufficiency, may lead to declines in diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevalence and mortality...

..If this were to occur, there would be substantial improvement in the world's health...

Difference by sex but not by race/ethnicity in the visceral adipose tissue-depressive symptoms association: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Rosemay A Remigio-BakerJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USAPsychoneuroendocrinology 47:78-87. 2014

..e. body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference), but few have examined the association between depressive symptoms and intra-abdominal fat. Of these a limited number assessed the relationship in a multi-racial/ethnic population...

Healthy food availability and the association with BMI in Baltimore, Maryland

..In conclusion, regional disparities in stillbirth rates in Spain in the period 2007-2010 were mainly associated with mothers who had low levels of education, were African-born, and lived in regions with higher unemployment...

Physical environment may modify the association between depressive symptoms and change in waist circumference: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

Rosemay A Remigio-BakerDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CAPsychosomatics 55:144-54. 2014

..Although the bidirectional association between depressive symptoms and adiposity has been recognized, the contribution of neighborhood factors to this relationship has not been assessed...

The association of endogenous sex hormones, adiposity, and insulin resistance with incident diabetes in postmenopausal women